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No one cries for the poor plumber (who only makes $2,400 per week - plus benefits)

Attention must be paid!

New England Patriots QB/QT - and fledgling real estate flipper - Tom Brady is under fire by the Plumbers & Gasfitters Union who want their brothers on the job at Brady’s Beacon Street rehab installing all of the bowls - Super or otherwise!

We’re not going to any Pats games until he builds union,” said Francis Jensen of Local 12, who with about a half-dozen of his brethren threw up an informational picket line in front of No. 12’s Back Bay condo yesterday.

Added union captain Tom Koney: “Here’s a guy who gets paid millions for what he does but he doesn’t believe in paying plumbers a decent wage.”

The picket line was aimed at flushing out Tom’s plumbing contractor A&K Plumbing of Revere which, the plumbers say, doesn’t pay the “established community standard” wage of $61.75 an hour plus benefits and does not employ any women or minorities. A&K was put in the Brady pipeline by the general contractor, Boston’s Metric Corp.

That Tom Brady - doesn’t he care a bit about the regular guy???

Source: Union plumbers throw wrench in Tom’s plan - By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa/ with Erin Hayes, The Boston Herald

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7 Responses to “No one cries for the poor plumber (who only makes $2,400 per week - plus benefits)” »»

  1. Comment by satan | 06/28/07 at 11:32 pm

    Unions in America are dying

    anyway. They are self-serving, short-sighted, and they are THE major reason the older industries in

    this country (auto, airlines, manufacturing) are going to pot.

  2. Comment by Ryan | 06/29/07 at 12:00 am

    What a load of crap. I’m sure ticket sales next year will slump so badly that the organization

    will beg Brady to change his tune and apologize.

    Oh wait, the ticket sellers aren’t in a

    union? Okay, well then I’m sure the guys who run the parking at the stadium must be?

    If

    nothing else, I certainly hope that the giant inflatable rat they’ll be inflating outside his

    property was made with union labor. They do have unions in China’s “Inflatable District”, right?

  3. Comment by Boston Real Estate | 06/29/07 at 9:29 am

    Unions should be illegal!

  4. Comment by MarkB | 06/29/07 at 10:05 am

    Unions are an failure to the system - they were necessary 80

    years ago but are expensive dinosaurs now. I was a union laborer and the waste, poor work ethic and

    crappy attitude were embarassing to be associated with./

  5. Deb
    Comment by Deb | 06/29/07 at 1:09 pm

    Well having lived in Los Angeles for

    20 years I can assure all that as soon as immigration makes it way east you can kiss the unions

    goodbye. And despite what you may think there is NO immigration in this area-you have NO idea

    what’s on its way…

  6. Comment by Peter | 06/30/07 at 6:23 am

    I am a college grad and I would love to find a job that makes $20 per hour.

    $60 is a dream come true.

  7. Comment by Rob Beland | 07/06/07 at 10:04 pm

    I don’t want to get into whether or not unions are

    a good idea because I have contractor friends that are in unions and some that are not and I can

    see arguments on both sides.
    I do want to say how idiotic that story is (not directed towards

    the messanger of course…)
    Let’s say his new place is “JINORMOUS” and has 10 bathrooms and two

    kitchens…Thats 10 toilets and 12 sinks maybe 14 sinks if he goes gourmet and gets the little sink

    in the island. A toilet installation runs about $300 or so I would think but let’s say he goes big

    with some European fixtures for $2500 each so his toilet bill jumps to $25,000 and his sinks cost

    $10,000 and he does a few hot tubs…

    Let’s say his plumbing bill runs $100,000. The union

    wants a piece of that job when there are contracts out there that are probably 10 times that much.

    Why does the union even care??? Is it really worth their time? Is the market that bad???

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